seomoz/askari — pull request #71 by b4hand (2013-10-24 20:24:44+00:00)
Title: Fix annoying comparison differences between unicode and non-unicode strings.

Depending on how you setup the fixture data, the strings may or may not be unicode strings and coming from HBase they are always raw bytes, so we want to do the comparison on the raw byte values. `ASCII-8BIT` is the closest thing that Ruby has for a raw byte encoding.